Art & Underwear. Although we’re used to the use of homo-erotic photography being used to flog underwear to the greater public, Bulge are doing it with a twist. For €99 you can buy a package consisting of a signed, numbered & framed photographic print of a subject wearing an item of Bulge underwear, and also the item of bulgewear featured in your print for yourself in your size.

So if you’re into artwork of men in their pants, and you happen to be in the market for a new pair of y-fronts, you better get yourself over to Bulge.

Damn it, it’s not a bed! When I first saw the Plywood Chateau by James Westwater I thought it was a life-size bedroom concept. Unfortunately, it’s art or something. pffft!!!

I demand someone designs a bed cube thingymabob that has interchangable vinyl walls that make you feel like you’re sleeping in a variety of exotic, expensive and glamorous locations, when in reality you’re sleeping in a plywood box!

Darth Vader doesn’t seem as frightening anymore. You’ve got to love Jeremyvilles’s Vader Helmet for The Vader Project; a reimagining of the iconic Darth Vader helmet by some of today’s hottest pop and underground artists.

You can see more of the artist’s helmets on show via Flickr.

Great video work from London based creative team. The guys from TEAR let me know about the award winning video they created for the buzz generating artist Ebony Bones. TEAR is the alias representing designer George Tsioutsias and artist Theo Michael, and the video they’ve created for the charmingly titled single ‘Don’t Fart On My Heart’ is a strikingly visual collection of scribbles and random stuff (just what I like.)

You can see the video on YouTube, or get a better quality version on TEAR’s website.

See more work by TEAR.

Germans, Guns & Photography. I have no idea what the german text accompanying this project is all about, all I know is that I want a gun-shaped camera. Running around the streets photo-shooting people in the face seems like a fun day out to me!

If you read German, find out more here.

I like sausages as much as the next guy, but… Víctor Castillo seems to have an unhealthy obsession with featuring sausages in his artworks. If you’re a fan of pigs, sausages and Ren & Stimpy-esque stylings go and check out at the work of Víctor Castillo at the Iguapop Gallery website.

You can find more work at Víctor Castillo’s own website.

Visual film fingerprints. Brendan Dawes has a great poster available over at the Coudal Partners fantastic Swapmeat.

The limited edition poster is based around the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. As Brendan explains it, “A specially written piece of software takes a tiny snapshot of the film every second. Each row contains sixty of these frames, representing one minute of film time. This process continues for the whole movie resulting in an image that becomes greater than the sum of its parts, in effect creating a unique visual fingerprint of the film.”

I love it when potentially geeky elements (software programming, cult films, etc) are used to create something undeniably cool.

Go and check out the poster, and more at Swapmeat.

No sleeping at a five star hotel. Sleepless is a collaboration between The Great Eastern Hotel and fourteen students from the Royal College of Art’s acclaimed Design Products department led by Professor Ron Arad. Running from 19th May - 3rd June, the reactive installations and objects invite guests and visitors to take part in an experience and step into a hidden dimension where a hotel is more than just a place for the night.

I really like Tiago Da Fonseca’s ‘Bedtime Stories’ project. Each added layer of linen on your bed contains a “page” making up a traditional bedtime story.

Find out more at Sleepless.

I hold my hands up and admit it! I’m a complete fan-boy for Martí Guixé. There’s so much good work that I could talk about, but his “Food Design” is so clever and humorous that it deserves to be highlighted.

Guixé as a Food Designer builds edible products that are ergonomic, functional, communicative, interactive, visionary but radically contemporary and timeless.

Cookies with decoration that indicates how to eat them, hands-free lollipops, pie-graph cakes that indicates the ingredients of the cake in percentages, it’s all genius. The man takes the term “designer” onto a whole other level.

Find out more about Martí Guixé and his “Food Design”.

Animals in clothes? From what I can gather, designer Hella Jongerius is showing work at the Zero Compromise exhibition at Galerie Kreo in Paris from April 21st until May 26th 2007.

I’m intrigued by the Rhinocéros wearing a shirt! I’ll try and get more info on the exhibition and work involved, but if anyone is in Paris and will be going to the exhibition, drop me a line and tell me about it.